CONTENTS OF VOL. L— THIRD SERIES. 



(1871.) 



NuMBEK I., January. 



Page 



I. A Revision of the Species of the Fringilliue Genus Sper- 

 mopUla. By P. L. Sclater, M.A., Ph.D., P.R.S. (Plates I. 

 and II.) 1 



II. Stray Notes on Ornithology in India. No. VI. By 

 Allan Hume, C.B 23 



III. Contributions to the Ornithology of Egypt. By Captain 



U. E. Shelley, F.R.G.S., F.G.S., &c 38 



IV. A List of the Birds of Southern Spain. By Howard 

 Saundeks, F.Z.S. , . 54 



V. On the Ornithology of Algeria. By J. H. Gukney, Jun., 

 E.Z.S. (Plate III.) 68 



VI. On the Psittaciche of Central America. By Osbeet 

 Salvin, M.A., E.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. (Plate IV.) 86 



VII. Descriptions of Two new Species of African Birds. By 



R. B. Sharpe, F.L.S., Libr. Z.S 100 



VIII. Letters, Announcements, &c. : — 



Annoimcement with reference to notices of recent Ornitho- 

 logical Publications 102 



Letters from Mr. J. H. Gurney, Mr. Layard, Mr. Tristram, 

 Mr. Home, Mr. Orde, and Viscount Walden 103 



Number II., April 

 IX. Notes on some of the Birds of the United States of Co- 

 lumbia. By Claude W. Wyatt. (Plate V.) 113 



